When you are feeling down do you like to listen to sad or happy music?

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It's difficult to know what to listen to. Music is a bit like a drug and when you're already emotional, you're not sure what affect it's going to have on you. But I would say that happy music is best for neutral moods and when I'm down, I go with angry or sad.

Actually, I tend to crave certain forms of music. Most of my music is '70s-'80s-'90s music, with some recent and top 40's mixed in, and I believe I have a song for just about every mood I have known myself to be in because I went through a phase where I would research and download a song to fit each individual mood.

It's not as technical as it sounds. Usually I will listen to an emo song to compliment my mood, and slowly upgrade the music to a lighter tone, or if I am driving, set it to a very down song before I set out, put it on shuffle, and sing every song I know. Singing usually helps me feel better.

Most of my music would be described as sad anyway, and I usually listen to really chilled songs which would probably be considered depressing by others. Although they don't make me sad.

If I listen to happy music when I'm sad, it just makes me angry.

It depends. I usually try to listen to a song in which the lyrics match what I am going through. That way, it feels like someone understands me.

I guess I have to pick 'other.'

Music with emotional power directed any which way seems to do the trick for me. Mellow tunes such as "Us & Them" by Pink Floyd, Angry tunes such as "Angel of Death" by Slayer, happy tunes such as "Backwards Down the Number Line" by Phish (which happens to be the happiest song ever, if you haven't heard it), ect...

It helps to have very eclectic tastes I guess.

Some sad music first then some real angry stuff

I'm barely happy or sad, but the things I like to listen or watch to never change. Sometimes I like something, then I'll go to something completely different after that. At the moment I am watching this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlYqjcdL68

Mass Effect 3 fan trailer. It's pretty good.

It varies on how deeply I'm feeling the emotion. Sometimes sad music will make it worse, but sometimes it's exactly what I need to feel better.

Happy Pantera.....LOUD.

I listen to the same things I'd listen to if i weren't down, but they tend to have more meaning when i'm emotional. Mostly incubus. They are awesome no matter what mood i'm in.

i listen to sad music so I can get even more depressed.

I listen to sad music but do sometimes feel as though I'm simply wallowing in depression rather than seeking to climb out of it with some positivity.

I normally go with music to match the mood I'm in, then gradually the music goes in a gradient from sad to happy. That way, I get rid of the sadness and make myself feel better :P

I crank out the ol' Evanescene CDs when I start feeling sad and depressed.

Naturally, it doesn't really help much.

But I distinctly remember between the ages of 11-15 when I was periodically depressed for no good reason, I would always listen to their first album. Evanescence was pretty much my life when I became sad or depressed. I was such a dork back.

i usually listen to something for the catharsis and have a good crying breakdown, then i'll work up to more positive music, or at least neutral realism or stuff with buddhist ideas. if it's too fake happy it makes me wanna kill myself.

Sad. Happy music just seems ironic.